[TYPO3-project-4-3] Tiny enhancements to "new record" links and wizard

Uschi Renziehausen typo3news at otherone.de
Fri Jan 23 20:13:52 CET 2009


Hello *

Jeff Segars wrote:
> Steffen Kamper wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> i would like to gather some issues to bundle them in patches.
>>
>> So i would like to have
>>
>> * new context entry in page tree "new page after" and "new page into" 
>> without calling the wizard
>>
>> * grouping the "new record" entries by extension like
>>
>> - plugin tt_news
>> - - news entry
>> - - news category
>> - plugin xyz
>> - - new record xyz
>> a.s.o.
>>
>> please add things that annoys you or what you think should be done.
>>
>> vg Steffen
> 
> One thing that has always annoyed me in the wizards and in other backend 
> listings of plugins and records is the ordering.
> 

I do no your feelings here :-)

> Currently, plugins and and records are listed based on the order they 
> were installed which doesn't have any meaning to the end user.
> 

Does that mean that for immediate needs I could simply reorder $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['extList']?

> Alphabetical order would certainly be an improvement and later on some 
> way to force commonly used plugins and records to the top of the list 
> would be even better.

But the alphabetical order should respect levels then, correct? So we have

Cal
  - A Cal
  - B Cal
News
  - A News
  - B News

 From a GUI point of view I could imagine having boxes around stuff that belongs together (far future).

Uschi


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